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New Year's quotes

Youth is when you are allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to.

— Bill Vaughn

New Year’s Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.

— Mark Twain

People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and Christmas.

— unknown

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

— Oscar Wilde

We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives… not looking for flaws, but for potential.

— Emily Goodman

Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year’s resolutions, and I’ve stuck with it ever since.

— Dave Beard

One resolution I have made, and try to always keep, is this: To rise above the little things.

— John Burroughs

May your troubles last as long as your New Year’s resolutions.

— Joey Adams

New Year’s Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.

— James Agate

Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average, which means you’ve already met your New Year’s resolution.

— Jay Leno

And finally, a New Year’s wish:

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.